Central Infrastructure Projects
Understanding the dynamics of naturalistic interactions
with direct face-to-face contact and immediate time-continuous feedback
(‘transparency’) is a central aim of the CRC. We will develop an integrated
conceptual and methodological framework to elucidate behavioural and neural
mechanisms of interactive decision-making in transparent settings. We will
advance two complementary novel experimental platforms, the Dyadic Interaction
Platform and the Exploration Room Platform, and share them across several CRC projects.
The platforms will allow flexibly manipulating individual sensory and social
information streams, and to integrate economic game theory with time-continuous
sensorimotor decision-making and social signalling. Synergistically advancing
these centralised platforms will facilitate the harmonisation of conceptual
approaches between disciplines in this CRC.
Studying social interactions and the underlying cognitive processes in humans and nonhuman primates requires observing and quantifying their behaviour, including body and head orientation, both in interactive lab settings and in the wild. The goal of this project is to develop methods for automated, video-based recognition, motion tracking, and pose estimation of individual nonhuman primates as well as recognition of action types and inter-agent interactions in groups of primates freely moving in the wild. The resulting Action Capture Platform will be highly beneficial for most projects in this CRC.